Japanese car queen

This is not a Japanese “race queen” but Japan’s car queen of Lilliput poses with a platinum Tomica “Nissan Fairlady Z432″ (Z432 was a Japan-only model sharing the same drivetrain of the C10 Skyline GT-R). This is a replica of the first edition die-cast created by Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry for the Takara Tomy Company of Japan to celebrate their 40th anniversary of Tomica toys.

At an estimated price of $80,000 USD, the toy Z432 car is a bargain since it is, “Still Cheaper Than The Real Thing” ; that is, the Nissan Fairlady Z432 is extremely rare would cost more than the toy according to the japanesenostalgiccar.com blog.

I’d reckon that the platinum car isn’t meant to be a scale model of a real z432, it’s meant to be a replica in platinum of the Tomica toy. So if the toy had some flaws in scale, then the platinum one would have them too

Thanks for pointing that out Kev.
I was thinking that the model was really screwed up since the front bumper and wheels are quite different than the US version. Even though I have done a frame-up restoration on 1971 240Z (US version), I never knew about the Fairlady Z432. I did my 240X restoration in 1983, the pre-Internet era.